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"A Drink of Water"

by Heaney, Seamus.

Bookseller: Alexander Rare Books

Price: US $400.00
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Book Condition: Near fine
Edition: First Thus

Broadside with a drawing by Martin Gale; appro.x 8 1/4 x 11 5/8. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Not to be confused with a similarly titled broadside printed in California a decade earlier that is much more common. Not located on WorldCat. Corners bumped, but s... Details

Broadside, 9 x 16 1/4 inches. One of 26 lettered copies ("O") signed by Heaney. Total edition was only 76. Designed and printed by Robert Milevski at the Im Press, Princeton, NJ on a Vandercook SP-20. This is the first printing of the poem. Details

Broadside , 8 1/4 by 11 6/8. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Cream stock, printed in grey and black. The Treasury made a donation to the "Save the Bog Campaign" for use of the poem which the author read on Radio Telefis Eireann on the Millennium's e... Details

A Garland for Captain Fox

by Greacen, Robert.

Bookseller: Alexander Rare Books

Price: US $25.00
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Book Condition: Very good
Edition: First edition

Glossy card covers in red printed dust jacket; 8vo. 30 pp. Fierce wonderful poetry from this Belfast (later, London) poet. Warmly inscribed and signed by the poet on the front free endpage, in the year of publication. No. 20 in a distinguished list. One o... Details

Chapbook; 8vo. Fine copy in original stiff white stapled covers. 11 pp. Important sequence published later in the year with revisions in the poet's second collection, DOOR INTO THE DARK. Brandes & Durkan A4b. Details

Peppercanister 6: One of 50 copies in green cloth, spine gilt stamped; 8vo. Inscribed and signed in full by the poet to Rev. William Gormley an early subscriber to the press. Beautifully printed by the Dolmen Press. Fine in like vellum unprinted dust ja... Details

Single sheet folded to make a decorated card of four pages; 8vo. Privately printed for Ballynahinch Castle, a hotel in Connemara, County Galway. Originally published in Milan in an edition of 70 copies to celebrate the poet's 60th birthday in April. T... Details

Single sheet folded to make a decorated card of four pages; 8vo. In matching envelope with castle and address printed. Privately printed for Ballynahinch Castle, a hotel in Connemara, County Galway. Originally published in Milan in an edition of 70 copies... Details

Stapled grey printed wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. One of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author. Woodcut decorations by Eric Gill. Back cover blurbs by Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell and Rosalie Moore. Precedes his first collection (which prints some of these ... Details